Luisa Corrado is professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Senior Research Fellow International Centre for Research Analysis (ICEA)She serves as deputy-editor of the journal Spatial Economic Analysis. She has received the Marie Curie Alumni Association Career Award 2019 and the Marie-Curie Excellence Award 2008 from the European Commission for Research in Social Science. Her research is featured in the final report of the 6th framework programme by the European Commission as one of the 30 success stories from over 14.500 funded in the years 2003-2012. Research field(s): applied macroeconomics; spatial and network econometrics; the economics of space exploration.